Hard News: The Civility Code
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cool Juha.
is it just me or is Paris Hilton modelled on Lady Penelope or what? -
Not sure, but Lady P would never have done this. She'd have got Parker to do it for her.
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merc,
I had Thunderbird 3? with Thunderbird 5 inside, one of the thin little detachable white legs went down the plug-hole, I was inconsolable, and realized then that I would come to nothing as the black hand of fate was upon me. All my pure thoughts toward Lady Penelope turned to guilty angst, I was six, the 60's were ending, it was then I turned to the Dark Side...
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It's different nowadays. Best you can hope for is those Hilton and Richie hoses up your backside.
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merc,
They're going to put out their own range of hoses?
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"Soap M'Lady?"
"Yes Parker"i had the same T3 with T5. it was cool. but the 60s, and even more so 70s, were also the time of new lows in shittily manufactured toys that broke soon after you got them - thus spawning a generation of dissaffected Soldiers for The Dark - mwahahaha
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yes, they'll be Hobby Hoses - good for a flogging
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She'd have got Parker to do it for her
And he always looked like one was being done to him.
BTW - you guys, like me, had Thunderbird 2, with Thunderbird 4 inside it.
Mine's a bit beaten up, with "Slade" painted in red on it these days (but painted in 1972), pity, because if pristine, they fetch a lot of money at auction.
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hmm, Slade eh
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Yeah. Don's arse is on fire.
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I was about to correct Juha and Riddley, but llew bet me to it.
I will leave you with a link to an image of said toy, instead
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merc,
Awe, it's worth more with Slade on it. Shows real character when you mod your precious toys.
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hmm, Slade eh
Heh. Yes. Saw them in their pomp, in Cardiff 1972. They were supported by then unknowns Suzy Quattro & her band, and Thin Lizzy.
Great concert.
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I said nuffink about that! Dammit, incorrect attributing is teh CoC!
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merc,
Noizyboy, thank you, I was just transported back then, you're right, it was 4 and 2, and there are the launch legs, I'm...ar, choking up.
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I'm...ar, choking up
An emergency! F.A.B. They're on their way!
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i liked the pete and dud better, that's a classic
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I can find no link to them, but did anyone else see a couple of mimes calling themselves The Fabulous Thunderbirds (not the band), who mimed an entire episode while wearing thunderbirds 1 & 2 hats?
Pretty much the funniest thing I've ever seen in a live theatre.
They did an arts fest some years ago.
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merc,
And Riddely, it was a beautifully made, metal toy, I was a connoiseur, Lesley's mostly, but somehow I got the Thunderbird toy. I thought my parents must have worked for years to get me that toy, hence my shame and the fall.
That Gerry Anderson really knew his stuff about merchandising. I hear they found Virgil, drunk and hopeless in a rubbish bin, some years after the show had finished, he just couldn't handle that Stingray tanked and here he was, out of work, damn shame. -
merc,
I saw the mimes, it was out loud funny and impossibly clever. Hell are we all crossing paths, it's that number 9 isn't it?
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merc,
An emergency! F.A.B. They're on their way!
Thanks, I just spat on my screens and nearly caused a goffer incident. -
yeah mine was metal too. was it matchbox? i can't remember.
and yes i heard that about Virgil, the gary coleman of supermariontion.
but oh, Mariiiiiiinaaaa, pretty marina.... . he was probably in love with her, all that fishiness and a tail - who could blame him?
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yeah mine was metal too. was it matchbox?
It was Dinky :) We also had a Lady Penelope pin k Roller, a couple of Capt. Scarlett vehicles, a James Bond Aston Martin DB5 (complete with firing missile & ejector seat), and a Yellow Submarine with all 4 beatles.
We have none of these anymore, except for parts of some of them.
I think that it'd be a good strategy for parents to buy two of everything like this - one for the kids to destroy & paint the names of their favourite bands on, the other to keep in its original packaging, for selling years later on trademe.
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3410,
That thunderbird 2 was HEAVY. Cast iron, no?
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they were all die cast then.
andrew i had that same silver DB5 - are you sure we didn't live in the same house but never noticed each other? i am quite introverted myself.
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